Re: [PATCH] x86, ACPI: Increase override tables number limit

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Sep 07 2013 - 17:57:42 EST


On Friday, September 06, 2013 07:08:00 PM Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Current acpi tables in initrd is limited to 10, that is too small.
> 64 should be good enough as we have 35 sigs and could have several
> SSDT.
>
> Two problems in current code prevent us from increasing limit:
> 1. that cpio file info array is put in stack, as every element is 32
> bytes, could run out of stack if we have that array size to 64.
> We can move it out from stack, and make it as global and put it in
> __initdata section.
> 2. early_ioremap only can remap 256k one time. Current code is mapping
> 10 tables one time. If we increase that limit, whole size could be
> more than 256k, early_ioremap will fail with that.
> We can map chunks one by one during copying, instead of mapping
> all them one time.
>
> -v2: According to tj, split it out to separated patch, also
> rename array name to acpi_initrd_files.
> -v3: Add some comments about mapping table one by one during copying
> per tj.
> -v4: copy one by one chunk instead as one single DSDT/SSDT could be
> more than 256k.
> -v5: fix compiling err when !CONFIG_SMP, found by Fengguang's robot
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

Full name would be nice.

> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>

Peter, any objections to the changes below from the x86 perspective?

> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 1 +
> drivers/acpi/osl.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> @@ -569,8 +569,10 @@ static const char * const table_sigs[] =
>
> #define ACPI_HEADER_SIZE sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)
>
> -/* Must not increase 10 or needs code modification below */
> -#define ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES 10
> +#define ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES 64
> +static struct cpio_data __initdata acpi_initrd_files[ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES];
> +
> +#define MAP_CHUNK_SIZE (NR_FIX_BTMAPS << PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> void __init acpi_initrd_override(void *data, size_t size)
> {
> @@ -579,8 +581,6 @@ void __init acpi_initrd_override(void *d
> struct acpi_table_header *table;
> char cpio_path[32] = "kernel/firmware/acpi/";
> struct cpio_data file;
> - struct cpio_data early_initrd_files[ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES];
> - char *p;
>
> if (data == NULL || size == 0)
> return;
> @@ -625,8 +625,8 @@ void __init acpi_initrd_override(void *d
> table->signature, cpio_path, file.name, table->length);
>
> all_tables_size += table->length;
> - early_initrd_files[table_nr].data = file.data;
> - early_initrd_files[table_nr].size = file.size;
> + acpi_initrd_files[table_nr].data = file.data;
> + acpi_initrd_files[table_nr].size = file.size;
> table_nr++;
> }
> if (table_nr == 0)
> @@ -652,14 +652,34 @@ void __init acpi_initrd_override(void *d
> memblock_reserve(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
> arch_reserve_mem_area(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
>
> - p = early_ioremap(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
> -
> + /*
> + * early_ioremap only can remap 256k one time. If we map all
> + * tables one time, we will hit the limit. Need to map chunks
> + * one by one during copying the same as that in relocate_initrd().
> + */
> for (no = 0; no < table_nr; no++) {
> - memcpy(p + total_offset, early_initrd_files[no].data,
> - early_initrd_files[no].size);
> - total_offset += early_initrd_files[no].size;
> + unsigned char *src_p = acpi_initrd_files[no].data;
> + phys_addr_t size = acpi_initrd_files[no].size;
> + phys_addr_t dest_addr = acpi_tables_addr + total_offset;
> + phys_addr_t slop, clen;
> + char *dest_p;
> +
> + total_offset += size;
> +
> + while (size) {
> + slop = dest_addr & ~PAGE_MASK;
> + clen = size;
> + if (clen > MAP_CHUNK_SIZE - slop)
> + clen = MAP_CHUNK_SIZE - slop;
> + dest_p = early_ioremap(dest_addr & PAGE_MASK,
> + clen + slop);
> + memcpy(dest_p + slop, src_p, clen);
> + early_iounmap(dest_p, clen + slop);
> + src_p += clen;
> + dest_addr += clen;
> + size -= clen;
> + }
> }
> - early_iounmap(p, all_tables_size);
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD_TABLE_OVERRIDE */
>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
> #include <acpi/pdc_intel.h>
>
> #include <asm/numa.h>
> +#include <asm/fixmap.h>
> #include <asm/processor.h>
> #include <asm/mmu.h>
> #include <asm/mpspec.h>
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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